Dr. Ernest Addison installed devices in his home to spy on BoG operations – Retired Colonel Festus Aboagye

Retired Colonel Festus Aboagye has made a striking allegation regarding former Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison, following a controversial raid on his residence by National Security operatives.

The search operation, which has drawn widespread criticism, was denounced by Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who claimed that valuables, including jewellery and money belonging to Dr. Addison’s wife, were taken during the raid.

However, Rtd. Col. Aboagye has suggested that the operation was carried out based on intelligence that Dr. Addison had installed electronic surveillance devices in his home, allegedly linked to the Bank of Ghana, allowing him to remotely monitor the institution’s activities.

Speaking to TV3, he asserted that this information prompted the security search, adding that what some reports described as the destruction of a CCTV camera was, in fact, the removal of a “monitoring wire” believed to have been used for surveillance.

The allegations have fueled further debate over the motives behind the search and raised questions about the extent of state surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations.

“What is coming out, unless contested, is that there was intelligence, I’m speaking on what it is that I have checked, that former Governor Addison when I got social information, checked from a source within National Security, certain individuals within the National Security, that he has wired his place with what we call back door electronic devices.

“Since then I have received multiple versions of it. He had devices in his house, wired to the Bank of Ghana, which enabled him to monitor what was going on. Monitoring is a very diplomatic word, this is spying, this is surveillance.

“And the state has not authorised anybody in the form of a former BoG to mount surveillance on the premises of BoG. The naked wireless was wired into devices. As far as I’m concerned, that was the objective of that search,” he stated.